20 years in, and people still rush to announce Firefox releases 24h before the actual official release, pointing to FTP servers 🤷
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Francesco Lodolo
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mastodon 4.7.3Mostly known as flod. Not the most social person.
Engineering Manager @mozilla for the Localization team.
Opinions are my own, I'm not in the habit of talking on behalf of other people.
Other interests: guitar, running, hiking, cakes.
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Read a comment on Reddit about the upcoming Firefox Settings redesign, made me chuckle: “can't find anything wrong, now I'm mad”.
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@governa@fosstodon.org I honestly wish people could stop sharing this image.
Have you checked the current version of the FAQs? Second from the top: "We never sell your personal data. "
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/
The latest example? The outrage over the Anthropic–Firefox collaboration.
Open source code doesn’t magically secure itself. If frontier models aren’t used for testing before release, attackers will gladly do it later.
Done responsibly, this kind of collaboration is a net win for Firefox users.
We weren’t able to find the right match in the previous round, so we’ve refined this role. We’re now looking for engineers with strong experience building JavaScript and Python libraries, and working in the open. Localization/i18n experience is a big plus.
Fully remote, ideally in Europe, but open to East Coast. Note that Mozilla can only hire in a few EU countries (NL, FI, SE, BE, UK, FR, DE, ES, PL).
More info here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/7746474/
My team at Mozilla is hiring 2 Localization Technical PMs (1 East Coast US/Canada, 1 in Europe). #jobs #hiring
It’s a bit of a unicorn role: strong localization fundamentals, comfortable reviewing code and writing small automations. Huge plus for community experience and coding skills.
Fully remote, distributed team, with some location constraints (e.g. only listed countries in Europe).
Check out the full listing and salary ranges here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/7781957/
Firefox just released a security update for 147 (Firefox, Firefox/Focus for Android) and ESR (140, 115).
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-10/
If you're using a fork, you might want to check how long it takes them to release the same update.
The more time I spend on Mastodon, the more I think I should just go back to writing blog posts for myself and tuning out this noise.
We blamed the tool (Twitter). It wasn’t the tool. It's people.
Maybe it's just me, or it's because I read the book, but Project Hail Mary didn't feel as amazing as others described.
It's a nice movie, but no Interstellar.
To anyone constantly saying "Why can't Mozilla do better at X? Don't they listen to users?".
I would point them at my timeline, where I have people happy about the new UI on Android, and people absolutely enraged. Often these messages are showing one after the other.
And that's why I'm not planning to visit the US while the current administration stands https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
Sabastian Sawe was the first person to run an official marathon under 2h (1:59:30). People who don't run might not fully understand what that speed looks like, or what's required (I think he was running 2:40/km at the end).
I feel for the poor guy — Yomif Kejelcha — who arrived second at 1:59:41, and will be forgotten while still achieving a record-breaking result.
I'm guessing this week everybody is an expert on security bugs and CVEs.
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Pretty amazing article on data center distribution https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
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@anthropy As for Vivaldi, I'm not as familiar with them.
Since they don't have their own rendering engine, they don't need as many people for development. A guesstimate based on LinkedIn would be less than 100 people?
Folks a few weeks ago were wondering about the claim Anthropic made about the use of Claude to find security issues.
There you go: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/
Looks like Americans finally discovered pizzoccheri (thanks to the Olympics).
Zinia By Santander ⇾ Openbank Pay By Santander (rolls right off the tongue…)
Barclays (DE) ⇾ easybank
Not sure what's happening this month, but apparently all credit card companies decided to change name. At least Barclays gave a few weeks of heads-up, not 2 days. So much for security by awareness.
I wonder if the sudden surge of security fix releases across packages (npm, pypi) is connected to Claude's new "offensive" capabilities.
Good grief. If there is one known problem with EVs is that batteries ignites rapidly with fire. So, let's have electric door handles that can trap people inside?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires
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@doragasu @anthropy It's too aggressive for standard users (based on this alone https://codeberg.org/librewolf/settings/src/branch/master/librewolf.cfg#L219)
You're better off with mainstream Firefox, and understanding which settings you want to change. But I get that it's a lot of work, and documentation isn't great.
I don't fully understand the versioning system (e.g. v145.0.2-1 vs v145.0.2-2), release speed seems variable (sometimes hours, sometimes several days after the upstream release).
“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die”. What a nice surprise of a movie. Strong Black Mirror vibes.
«The reported losses come five months after Trump Media announced plans to merge in a $6bn deal with a California nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies that aims to power artificial intelligence datacenters.»
What!?
It's impressive how bad GitHub has become at running scheduled workflows.
It used to be occasional minutes of delays, now I have some that run more than one hour later, and in some cases don't run at all.
Given my timeline: Firefox is not shipping Brave's adblocker.
«We are not bundling Brave's ad-blocking system, we're testing one of their open source Rust components to improve how Firefox processes tracker lists. »
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1sttf82/comment/oi1xklx/
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@dtl@8bitorbust.info WebSerial is being actively worked on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926940
I don't think that's the case with WebBluetooth.
With that said, I can't wait for people complaining about the browser breaking some hw.
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@Mossop@fosstodon.org I honestly don't know (and I share the feeling about old Twitter).
I'm guessing you can make Mastodon feel more useful by investing a lot of time curating your feed, but right now it doesn't feel worth the effort.
I don't have social media apps on my phone at all, and I don't remember the last time I went on Mastodon via browser. Maybe that's a sign that I really don't need it in my life.